Splunk's Erik Swan Captures InfoWorld CTO 25 Award Honors

Splunk Technology Leadership and Approach Gains Further Validation From
Industry Experts

SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Splunk, the IT Search company, today
announced that Splunk CTO, and co-founder, Erik Swan has been named as a
recipient of the prestigious IDG InfoWorld CTO 25 Awards, an annual award that
honors senior IT executives, like Swan, who demonstrate leadership within
their companies and in the IT community. The honor further demonstrates the
company's commitment to leadership excellence and validation of its innovative
IT Search approach for managing, securing and auditing IT.

InfoWorld believes that CTOs are often the unsung heroes of IT, potentially
driving new technology development for customer-facing and/or internal use and
managing and improving the core technology that underpins the business
operations. In any case, the long-standing publication believes that it's CTOs
that translate the promise of technology into real business benefit. In his
role at Splunk, Swan is the company's chief product innovator. Having spent
years managing large-scale IT infrastructures at companies like Yahoo!,
Infoseek, Disney and Apple, Swan and the other Splunk founders were constantly
frustrated by the inflexible and unfriendly tools required to manage, secure
and audit these environments. With a "by the people, for the people" approach,
Swan and his team are dedicated to building software they want to use. His
approach to product development at Splunk is to trust autonomous teams of
really smart people to deliver amazing innovations in an iterative, open
environment.

"It's true that our design philosophy is to deliver technology 'by the people,
for the people'. We've been committed to creating software that we really
wanted to use ourselves. So it's no wonder users and industry experts are
enthusiastic fans," said Erik Swan, CTO and co-founder, Splunk. "People in the
trenches like sysadmins, security analysts, network engineers, developers or
service desk and support staff can use Splunk right away and get the really
challenging parts of their jobs done better, faster and more easily. Splunk
users routinely solve problems in minutes that used to take them hours or
days. That's the power of Splunk, and the reason people love it."

Swan and his Splunk team created an IT Search engine unique in its ability to
quickly deploy, easily scale - and most importantly - provide companies with
tangible, immediate results that validate a return on investment. Splunk's
innovative approach to keeping the IT infrastructure available, secure and
compliant, enables customers to index and search logs, configurations,
messages, traps, alerts, metrics and more from any IT component, from one
location and in real time. Organizations use this data to troubleshoot
outages, speed threat analysis and response, and drive compliance reporting.

"The diversity of challenges that a CTO faces was very evident in this year's
InfoWorld CTO 25 entries. But what was common across the 25 CTOs we chose as
the year's top CTOs was a combination of management savvy, technological
insight, and the ability to lead a team to success even in difficult
circumstances," said Galen Gruman, executive editor, News and Features,
InfoWorld . "This year's honorees reinvented untenable legacies, provided
game-changing insight to make their businesses succeed through the use of
technology. Our honorees did much more than implement technology well; they
brought its use to a new level."

InfoWorld coverage, with additional detail of achievements by Swan and Splunk
can be found at http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-management/best-ctos-2009-133.

In addition to earning this esteemed award, Splunk's recent list of
accomplishments include:
-- Q1 2009 results: adds 110 customers, best quarter ever (+110% over Q1
2008)
-- Winner 2009 SC Magazine Award, Europe: Best Integrated Security
Solution
-- Winner of 2009 TiE50 Award
-- Ranked #1 in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Rising Star
-- Thirty-one licensed customers in the Fortune 100

-- Named Among San Francisco Business Times "2008 Best Places to
Work"

About InfoWorld Media Group
InfoWorld Media Group helps IT Decision Makers choose the right technology,
within the context of a cohesive strategy for business impact at their
organizations. InfoWorld identifies and promotes emerging technology segments
that add unique value for the organizations that implement them, as well as
the vendors that provide those solutions. Using an integrated communications
approach including online, events, research, and a continued investment in an
independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide hands-on
analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding
emerging technologies and products. Visit InfoWorld at
http://www.infoworld.com.

About International Data Group
International Data Group (IDG) is the world's leading technology media,
events, and research company. IDG's online network includes more than 450 web
sites spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment
and video games worldwide. IDG also publishes more than 300 magazines and
newspapers in 85 countries. IDG's media brands include CIO, CSO,
Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World.
IDG's lead-generation service, IDG Connect, matches technology companies with
an audience of engaged, high-quality IT professionals, influencers, and
decision makers. IDG is a leading producer of more than 750 technology-related
events including Macworld Conference & Expo, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo,
Entertainment for All Expo (E for All), DEMO, Storage Networking World, and
IDC Directions. IDC, a subsidiary of IDG, is the premier global provider of
market intelligence, advisory services, and events. Over 900 IDC analysts in
more than 90 countries provide global, regional, and local expertise on
technology and industry opportunities and trends.

Additional information about IDG, a privately held company, is available at
http://www.idg.com.

About Splunk
Splunk is the IT Search company radically changing the way organizations
manage and secure their IT infrastructures. Only Splunk enables you to search,
analyze, monitor and report on data from any application, server or network
device in real time to troubleshoot outages, investigate security incidents,
meet compliance requirements, and more, in minutes instead of hours or days.
Over 900 enterprises, government organizations and service providers, and more
than 300,000 users, use Splunk to achieve higher availability, investigate
security incidents in record time, and realize new levels of IT operational
efficiency. Partners such as BT and Cisco and over 50 OEM, System Integrator,
Value Added Reseller and Managed Service Provider partners are driving new
business and fueling their offerings with IT Search. Download your own free
copy of Splunk today at http://www.splunk.com

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Joe Fitzpatrick, Splunk Inc., +1-415-848-8553, jfitzpatrick@splunk.com, or
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